Financial TimesPalestinian kills 3 Israelis outside West Bank settlementABC NewsIsraeli police blocks the road to Har Adar settlement near Jerusalem, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017. Israeli police said that a Palestinian attacker opened fire at the entrance to the settlement killing three Israeli men and critically wounding a fourth.Palestinian gunman kills three I […]

ForbesItalian Bike Race's Move To Israel Throws Up Questions For Arab Teams And Potential For DétenteForbesOne of the world's most prestigious bike races, the Giro d'Italia, will visit Israel as part of its schedule next year, throwing up a potentially thorny problem for two of the teams that will be expected to take part and which are sponsor […]

HaaretzTurkey's Erdogan threatens to halt renewed Israel ties over backing for Kurdish stateJewish Telegraphic Agency“If Israel does not reconsider its support for Kurdish independence, Turkey will not be able to take many steps we would have with Israel, too,” Erdogan said Tuesday, the day after a nonbinding referendum by Iraqi Kurdistan on whether to […]

National PostBarbara Kay: Boycott Roger Waters, rock legend and rabid Israel haterNational PostIn 2013 lead Animals singer Eric Burdon cancelled an appearance in Israel, intimidated by the relentless anti-Israel “pro-peace” zealots of the Boycott/Divestment/Sanctions (BDS) campaign. Other celebrities who have caved to threats of shunning and ...and more » […]

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Jewish Telegraphic AgencyConan and 'Transparent' give Israel the normalcy it cravesJewish Telegraphic AgencyYet both shows appeared to have emerged from an earlier, less complicated era when Israel was largely seen as a regional good guy and the Palestinians as an uncomfortable but ultimately solvable nuisance if only haters on both sides would let […]

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The Times of IsraelIsraeli tech helps Mexican rescuers locate quake victimsThe Times of IsraelRadio-wave technology developed by Israeli firm Camero-Tech that can “see” through solid walls is helping rescue workers in Mexico search through rubble for buried victims, Amir Beeri, the CEO of the firm, said. “We got reports from our representative ...

When New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo arrived in a Maria-devastated Puerto Rico Friday, he brought with him a half-dozen electrical generators – coveted assistance for an island that officials estimate could be without power for months. If New York’s governor saw fit to demonstrate solidarity with Puerto Rico, it is because of the sizable and well-established Puer […]

After a hurricane, earthquake, or a terrorist attack, artists and performers are usually not first responders. A good example was Telemundo’s four-hour telethon on Sept. 24 that brought out stars such as Jennifer Lopez on behalf of the victims of hurricanes Maria, Harvey, Irma, as well as the Mexican earthquakes. “The healing power of the arts is a real thin […]

For two days after Mexico’s 7.1 earthquake toppled scores of buildings, killing what’s now believed to be nearly 300 people, the country was captivated by the story of Frida Sofía, a 12-year-old on the brink of a miraculous rescue. Frida Sofía didn’t exist. Recommended: How much do you know about Mexico?

In a bright and boxy photo studio in South Sudan’s capital, an industrial printer is spitting out a glossy stack of exotic vacation snapshots. Recommended: Think you know Africa? “Couches, grand pianos, far away houses – these are the things people most like to have the backgrounds in their pictures,” says Tsedeke Abebaw, the owner of On Time Photo Studios i […]

We all heard Donald Trump brag about committing sexual assault. It was shocking to hear, and upsetting to nearly everyone. Trump wants us to believe that it was locker room banter: just men talking the way men talk! In other words, it was harmless. But Donald Trump is wrong. The words he spoke were not […] The post What It Feels Like to Be A Survivor of Sex […]

Judging by the number of articles, words per article, comments per article, and pure passion, one could reasonably conclude that the war of words being waged against Open Orthodoxy is of major public interest and concern. I am certain that many people are extremely invested in how this all plays out on the pages of […] The post Why the War of Words About Ope […]

Presenting another episode of Finkorswim Live on the Stunt Show. Today’s show featured two topics. Understanding both sides of the Orthodox women rabbis issue and Elad Nehorai joined us to talk about Hevria and Hevria Academy. The show aired at 1 PM ET today on NachumSegal.com and the NSN App. The show has been archived and is available as a podcast on […] T […]

About a year ago, I launched a series of Torah classes that has taken me on an inspiring journey. The chief complaint of the mostly Millennial group who asked me to teach this class, was that they were fluent in the basics of Judaism, they knew the curated version of its meaning that they learned in school, they wanted […] The post My Course on Non-Conformis […]

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Irving Berlin: National Museum of American Jewish History

One of the 18 pieces created for permanent exhibit “Only In America”, at the National Museum of American Jewish History.
The installation includes tributes to Steven Spielberg, Barbara Streisand, Golda Meir and Albert Einstein.
Narrated by Aimee Jolson

NMAJH: Louis Brandeis: Interview with Ruth Bader Ginsberg

Narrated by Aimee Jolson
One of 18 pieces created for permanent exhibit “Only In America”, at the National Museum of American Jewish History.
The installation includes tributes to Steven Spielberg, Barbara Streisand, Golda Meir and Albert Einstein

National Museum of American Jewish History

National Museum of American Jewish History Grand Opening Gala

National Museum of American Jewish History Wedding

A beautiful wedding ceremony and reception at the National Museum of American Jewish History captured by Uncorked Studios, LLC. http://www.uncorkedstudios.me

National Museum of American Jewish History Wedding | NMAJH

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Join Allure Films by Video One Productions for a wedding at the National Museum of American Jewish History.

Shalom Hartman Institute

Shalom Hartman Institute – hartman.org.il – is a leading, Israel-based Jewish educational, research and leadership training institute that focuses on pluralistic, progressive, non-denominational approaches to Judaism and seeks to draw the Diaspora closer to Israel. Hartman Institute was founded by Rabbi David Hartman, one of the Jewish world’s leading philosophers and scholars.

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Collecting Jewish Cultural Treasures in a Post-WWII New York Lobby

15.04.2014
During the summer of 1948, only three years after the end of World War II, Ben Stonehill, a man devoted to Jewish culture, recorded recently-arrived Jewish survivors of the war who were temporarily housed in a hotel in upper Manhattan. The singers included men, women, and children. Stonehill collected over a thousand songs of many kinds: joyful as well as sad, mainly in Yiddish but also in Hebrew, Polish, and Russian. These songs are musical testimonies to the resilience of the survivors, a direct link to pre-war Jewish life in Eastern Europe, and a cultural treasure. The music and chatting that went on in between the songs tell not only of the singers’ terrible traumas but also of their hopes, and reflect the sheer pleasure of reconnecting with others through song. In this talk, Isaacs describes the role of the Library of Congress in preserving this unique musical treasure. She plays some of these almost forgotten recordings and talks about the collector, the singers, and their times.

Speaker Biography: Miriam Isaacs is retired affiliate visiting associate professor of Yiddish Language and Culture, University of Maryland College Park. She received her Ph.D., M.A. in Linguistics from Cornell University. She is a native speaker of Yiddish and has language skills in English, French, German, Modern Hebrew and Russian. While in residence in the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, Dr. Isaacs worked on her project entitled, “Oral Culture in Transition: The Legacy of the Benjamin Stonehill Collection.”

Der Lambeth hop (The Lambeth Walk in Yiddish)

26.05.2015
This was sung by George Kessler to Ben Stonehill in the Hotel Marsellaise in the summer of 1948. Stonehill was an amateur ethnomusicologist collecting songs from Jews recently released from DP camps. Some of his songs, including this one, can be found at http://www.ctmd.org/stonehill.htm

Benedictine monk converts to Judaism

Converting to Judaism

04.05.2015http://to.pbs.org/1AqOBt4 Despite the sometimes lengthy and challenging process—and concerns that converted Jews are not “100 percent” Jewish—many converts find fulfillment and a sense of identity in the Jewish faith. According to Shmuly Yanklowitz, an Orthodox rabbi and himself a convert, Judaism will need to become more inclusive and more accepting of converts to survive in the 21st century.

For My Children? Only The Best

29.07.2015
Parents are never satisfied to provide their children with the minimum, or even the average. For their own needs a father or mother might settle for less, but for their children they want only the greatest and the best they can provide. If this is so with food and clothing, which are quite temporary, how much more so when it comes to a child’s spiritual education, which impacts the rest of his or her entire life.

דוד ד’אור והפילהרמונית הישראלית

Jiddische Lieder / Yiddish Songs

Early Jewish settlers were isolated from established Jewish institutions and communities in eastern Canada and the United States. They were also often isolated from each other, scattered across the Greater Vancouver area. As the local cities developed, the Jewish community also grew and expanded beyond the original business districts to spread throughout the area. While some early Jewish settlers ran farms, poultry operations, and sawmills, most tended to work in merchant industries. Many started as street peddlersand worked their way up to running small stores, a few of which grew into retail empires. read more…From Wikipedia,

Stanton Street Shul on Lower East Side in New York City on National Register of Historic Places in New York City

The renovations of King David’s Tomb on Mt. Zion; Jerusalem – Completed!!!!

The Message Of 17 Tammuz

06.07.2015
The prayers for the fast of 17 Tammuz begin: “Permit G-d no silence, until He sets and establishes Jerusalem as the praise of the earth. For with You is the source of life; in Your light we will see light. Our G-d, we are contrite over our actions, we are shamed because of our wrongdoing.”

akivara papa

Artist & Educator: Director of the Under the Wings (Holocaust) & Sight-seeing with Dignity (human rights) art series for children, youth, young adults & adults.
All of the completed Under the Wings, other Holocaust artworks, and all of the Sight-seeing w/ Dignity human rights art series artwork can be viewed in a flickr.com album (one can also type Akiva Kenny Segan in the fllickr search box).http://www.flickr.com/people/59084976@N02/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjPJLBfAXMs

Moshe Yess – Torah Tziva Lanu Moshe

New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival

06.05.2015
Description: At the opening night of the 2014 New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival, awards are presented to filmmaker Kamal Hachkar and poet Erez Bitton, as well as musician Erico Macias. Also featuring conversations with Carole Basri (Associate Producer, Fordham Law School), Sarah Nodjoumi (Film Festival Artistic Director), David Dangoor (Chair, American Sephardi Federation). With Ellie Cohanim.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdBTZVqkv48

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Iranian & Israeli who make chamber music – BBC News

01.03.2015
Mahan Esfahani and Avi Avital are an unusual musical partnership. Esfahani is Iranian and plays harpsichord, and Avita is a mandolin player from Israel. They started working together in August…

Iranian harpsichord player Mahan Esfahani and Israeli mandolin player Avi Avital talk about how a mutual love of Bach brought them together. The pair agree that is it not politics that has…

Ya Ribon Olam – CCJ Nicole Borger August 2013

“Volt ikh gehat koyekh” Performed by Nicole Borger and Isra-Alien

Performance on live national TV in Sao Paulo of the song “Volt ikh gehat koyekh”.
Performed by Nicole Borger and Isra-Alien. Includes verses in Yiddish, English and Portuguese.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoPykKhznwM

Yosl Bergner

24.06.2015
Yosl Bergner was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1920 and grew up in Warsaw, Poland.

With rampant anti-Semitism in Europe, the Freeland League for Jewish Territorial Colonization was formed in the United States in July 1935, to search for a potential Jewish homeland. Soon afterwards a pastoral firm in Australia offered the League about 16,500 square kilometres (6,400 sq mi) in the Kimberleys, stretching from the north of Western Australia into the Northern Territory. As history showed, the plans went nowhere. But for a time, the Australian idea was at least worth considering. Bergner’s father, Melech Ravitch, became involved in a serious investigation of the Kimberley Plan.

In this way the Bergner family moved to Australia. Yosl emigrated to Australia in 1937 and studied in the National Gallery School in Melbourne until the outbreak of War World II. He served for four and a half years in the Australian Army, and later continued his studies at the Art School.

In Melbourne from 1937–48, Bergner befriended many of the local artists who now epitomize modern Australian art: Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker, John Perceval and Arthur Boyd.[1] Adrian Lawlor moved with his wife to a cottage at Warrandyte, an outer suburb of Melbourne, where they lived for 30 years. Bergner was a frequent visitor at their Warrandyte home. All the men socialized together. Bergner encouraged them to go beyond their traditional landscape style and introduced a more radical concern for working families, thus having an important impact on Australian art.

Bergner may not have been prepared for the plight of many struggling Australians. Yet he felt a strong connection between the suffering of people everywhere, whether they were the Jews that he remembered from Europe, landless blacks in the heart of Australia or hungry children in inner urban Melbourne.

He left Australia in 1948 and after two years of traveling and exhibiting in Paris, Montreal and New York, he settled in Israel. He lived in Safed until moving to Tel Aviv in 1957.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3z8PetmY1c

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Suzanne Shepherd: A Gift of Fire

Acclaimed actress, director and teacher, Suzanne Shepherd, gives a master acting class in this trailer for the soon to be released documentary film, “Suzanne Shepherd – A Gift of Fire”. To find out more about this exciting new film, visit http://www.agiftoffire.com.

מא תאקשי ביא * ריימונד אבקסיס

Saul Bellow (10 June 1915 – 5 April 2005) was a Canadian-born American writer. For his literary contributions, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts.[1] He is the only writer to win the National Book Award for Fiction three times[2] and he received the Foundation’s lifetime Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 1990.[3],,,,

Saul Bellow was born Solomon Bellows[9][10] in Lachine, Quebec, two years after his parents, Lescha (née Gordin) and Abraham Bellows,[11] emigrated from Saint Petersburg, Russia. [9][10] Bellow’s family was Lithuanian-Jewish,[12][13] with father born in Vilnius. Bellow celebrated his birthday in June, although he may have been born in July (in the Jewish community, it was customary to record the Hebrew date of birth,,, Photo by Wikipedia

Itche Goldberg interviewed in YIddish

In this film (83 minutes) in Yiddish , 101-year-old educator, essayist, literary critic, poet, and editor Itche Goldberg discusses his life: his upbringing, schooling in Poland and Canada, his work as an educator and editor and his views as a literary critic. Itche speaks candidly with interviewer Eugene Orenstein of McGill University about the linke shuln (progressive schools), which he helped to shape, and very honestly assesses their strengths and shortcomings. Among other things, he recalls both a conflict with famed anarchist Emma Goldman and “kashering” a Yiddish reader with a photo of Lenin! What emerges is a multi-faceted picture of the world of a man who attended the funeral of the great Yiddish writer I.L. Peretz over 90 years ago and who remained creatively, intellectually and politically active in the Yiddish world until his death at 102!

BIOGRAPHY
Itche Goldberg (1904-2006) was born in Apt, Poland, and grew up in Warsaw. Since his arrival in Canada in 1920 as a teenager, the name Itche Goldberg has been synonymous with the linke (progressive) Yiddish movement. In 1925 Itche started Yungvelt, Canada’s first secular Jewish children’s camp. In 1932 he moved to New York City and from 1933 until the mid-1970s he was director of the Yiddish schools and cultural programs of the International Workers Order/Jewish People’s Fraternal Order (JPFO).(Beginning in 1953, following the dissolution of the IWO due to McCarthyism, the schools were run by the newly named Service Bureau for Jewish Education.) Itche edited Yidishe Kultur and the children’s magazine Yungvarg. In the 1950s he established the Zhitlowsky Foundation for Jewish Culture. He is the recipient of two major literary awards: Israel’s Itsik Manger Prize in 1985 and the Dovid Hofshteyn Prize in 1990. His latest book Eseyen — Tsvey (Essays — Two) was published in 2006.

INTERVIEWER
Eugene Orenstein is Associate Professor in the Dept. of Jewish Studies at McGill University where he teaches modern Jewish history and Yiddish literature. He was a student in the Ordn-shuln (schools of the Jewish People’s Fraternal Order) where Itche Goldberg was his teacher. This was the beginning of a lifelong friendship.

On Sunday, May 5, 2013, the League for Yiddish held a historic program, “A Celebration of Yiddish Creativity,” in honor of the publication of its book, New Yiddish Literature, Afn Shvel Issue # 358-359.

The program features: greetings from Prof. David G. Roskies of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America; dramatic readings from the book by actor Hy Wolfe; a discussion on “Prospects for Contemporary Yiddish Writing” with Professors Marc Caplan, Dov-Ber Kerler, and Sheva Zucker; and new Yiddish songs composed and sung by Josh Waletzky. (Those interested will be able to hear the songs when Waletzky’s new CD is released.)

The volume being honored (see the cover and excerpts at http://leagueforyiddish.org/palce3sdi&#8230;) encompasses the work of 30 people writing in Yiddish, ranging from college students to venerable older Yiddish writers, living on four continents and in seven countries.

The evening was organized in partnership with the Program in Modern Jewish Studies of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

YIDDISH FEST MOSCOW 2015: Opening

27.05.2015

Der Lambeth hop (The Lambeth Walk in Yiddish)

26.05.2015
This was sung by George Kessler to Ben Stonehill in the Hotel Marsellaise in the summer of 1948. Stonehill was an amateur ethnomusicologist collecting songs from Jews recently released from DP camps. Some of his songs, including this one, can be found athttp://www.ctmd.org/stonehill.htmhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9BlCHnCy6w

If Books Could Talk: The Story of Three Jewish Treasures Rescued from the Vilna Ghetto

What are the secret lives of books? In the Vilna Ghetto, Yiddish poets Abraham Sutzkever and Szmerke Kaczerginski and others risked their lives to rescue Jewish treasures from destruction and looting by the Nazis. David Fishman (Jewish Theological Seminary) selects three of the extraordinary items they saved—Theodor Herzl’s diary, the minute-book from the Vilna Gaon’s synagogue, and an original manuscript of Jacob Gordin’s classic Yiddish play ‘Mirele Efros’—and reveals their “biographies”: their composition and significance; the story of their acquisition by YIVO; their rescue; and their retrieval after Vilna’s liberation. Two of these works were safely transported to YIVO in New York, but the third work encountered a very different fate in Soviet Lithuania.

The Ruth Gay Seminar in Jewish Studies was established in 2008 in honor of Ruth Gay (1922-2006), the noted American Jewish historian and writer, with a generous gift from the family of Ruth Gay. The seminar series is given by scholars who have conducted research in the YIVO Archives and wish to share their work with the public.

Kesher Luncheon 2014 Video 1-5

Natalie Portman’s “A Tale of Love and Darkness”

14.05.2015
Based on Amos Oz’s novel, “A Tale of Love and Darkness” tells the story of the author’s childhood during the transitive years when Palestine was reclassified as Israel. The clip is about the “Paraable f Two Monks”. http://bit.ly/DeadlineSubscribehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7XbyH5oTME

”Schindler’s List” – John Williams – violin solos by Itzhak Perlman

Wikimedia Israel looked for a special way to celebrate the Hebrew Wikipedia 10th anniversary – something that has never been done before.
The result was a unique collaboration with TV Channel 2, the most viewed channel in Israel! For an entire week, five of the most senior Channel 2 reporters, who learned to edit Wikipedia by our volunteers, wrote or extended an article on Hebrew Wikipedia.
Then, each recorded a one minute video, explaining why they have decided to write on this specific topic. Every day, just before the evening news broadcast, the video was broadcasted and while the anchor presented the project, he explained “we wanted to celebrate Wikipedia’s 10th anniversary and show that everyone can write an article on Wikipedia” .

Hava Nagila – Amrutam Gamaya – Music Mojo Season 3 – KappaTV

Hava Nagila by ‘Amrutam Gamaya’ a cover of “Hava Nagila” (הבה נגילה Havah Nagilah, “Let us rejoice”) an Israeli folk song traditionally sung at Jewish celebrations. It is considered to be perhaps the first modern Israeli folk song in the Hebrew language that has become a staple of band performers at Jewish weddings and Bar/Bat Mitzvahs.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZodG-sPrRE

The Lady Lifers: A moving song from women in prison for life

15.05.2015
The ten women in this chorus have all been sentenced to life in prison. They share a moving song about their experiences — one that reveals their hopes, regrets and fears. “I’m not an angel,” sings one, “but I’m not the devil.” Filmed at an independent TEDx event inside Muncy State Prison, it’s a rare and poignant look inside the world of people imprisoned with no hope of parole.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design — plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1NMHrNcAEw

ISRAEL MUSIC HISTORY U.S. Army Band Hebrew Song סביבון בתזמורת צבא ארה”ב

When the Rebbe saved three lives

Dr Harold Serebro is a leading medical practitioner, entrepreneur and author of several books.
He recalls how one a busy afternoon, a panicked Rabbi Bernhard walked into his Johannesburg practice holding a file of x-rays belonging to a congregant.
The Rabbi’s dilemma: Doctors were insisting on immediate surgery, but the Rebbe was of an entirely different opinion.
Living Torah Disc 134 Program 534https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FivQpu7vos

Hebrew Songs

V’haer Einenu written by Reb. Shlomo Carlebach. Yigdal Elohim Chai written by Kay Smith. Video produced by Luis and Jano Skinfill of Skinfill Entertainment Records, The Worship TV Channel.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONKwMJ5r_Sk

Israel: Defying the Odds

Amazing facts about Israel
Taken from http://www.aish.com/h/iid/90073102.html
Produced by Rabbi Ephraim Shore, one of the directors of Aish HaTorah Jerusalem, and the Israel Director for HonestReporting.com and the Hasbara Fellowships for campus Israel activism. Prior to making aliyah, he was Executive Director of Aish Miami and Aish Toronto.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flFyh8_EFps

Israel – what a beautiful country

The renewed growth of anti-Israeli attitudes is also irritating. Old and new resentments are being nurtured, revived, and advanced. Irraels will for self-defense and self-preservation is being distorted, and Israels right to act accordingly is being disputed. In this respect, our sympathy has certain priorities, and the latent left-wing anti-Zionism is shocking and annoying. Comparing Israelis with Nazis, calling their politics fascistic should in turn regard Germans as victims of an unaccepted defeat. Those who sell the terror initiated by the Palestinians as fight for freedom and who deny Israel the right for self-defense, who deny the positive sides of this one and only respectable justice system in the Near-East, nauseate us with their ideological untruthfulness.
Kategorie: Nachrichten & Politikhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTbvVQX3jyk&list=UUkfozL2szms3WayEhZ4fk2A

israel for ever foundation.org

Are Your Lights On?!

16.04.2015
Oorah kicks off a new weekly series with a thought-provoking look at the Torah portion of the week, Parshas Shmini, featuring TorahMates coordinator Rabbi Mordechai Beer. Short and to the point, guaranteed to fill your week with inspiration.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMXz6K5D8v8

In her book, “Becoming Frum: How Newcomers Learn the Language and Culture of Orthodox Judaism,” Sarah Bunin Benor describes how newly orthodox Jews have to adopt not only the laws and customs, but also new speech patterns.
Speaker Biography: Sarah Bunhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy3C4X0WQBE

‘SACRED SPERM’ INTERVIEW – RAINDANCE

Director ORI GRUDER (AKA OR YASHAR)
talks to Soul Star about his Feature Documentary ‘SACRED SPERM’ which looks deeply & sensitively at an aspect of Ultra Orthodox Hasidic Judaism which is rarely discussed in publichttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly1z4KCBrPY

Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit[1] (22 July 1878 or 1879 – August 7, 1942[2]), was a Polish-Jewish educator, children’s author, and pediatrician known as Pan Doktor (“Mr. Doctor”) or Stary Doktor (“Old Doctor”). After spending many years working as director of an orphanage in Warsaw, he refused freedom and stayed with his orphans when the institution was sent from the Ghetto to the Treblinka extermination camp, during the Grossaktion Warsaw of 1942.[3] Photo by Wikipedia

The Last Korczak Boy

15.04.2015
Itzchak Belfer never really left Yanusz Korczak’s orphanage on Krochmalna Street in Warsaw, Poland. Even though he is now 90 years old, a well-known Israeli artist, he will always be little Itzchakele from Warsaw, and Korczak is always with him in thought and spirit. The Polish doctor and educator lives on in Belfer’s drawings and paintings, and Yanusz Korczak’s spirit dwells in the artist’s soul.

Belfer shares with us his amazingly clear memories from the orphanage on Krochmalna Street in pre-World War II Warsaw. He reveals Korczak’s unique view of children as, first of all, human beings to be treated with the same dignity and consideration as adults.

He warmly describes the work of Korczak and his assistant, Stepha Wilczyńska, at the orphanage, their love for the children and their total dedication to saving them, which led to their tragic end.

Janusz Korczak

(Source: Yad Vashem) http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/holoca…

(Pen name of Henryk Goldszmit; 1878/9-1942)

Polish Jewish doctor, author and educator. Born in Warsaw to an assimilated Jewish family, Korczak dedicated his life to caring for children, particularly orphans. He believed that children should always be listened to and respected, and this belief was reflected in his work. He wrote several books for and about children, and broadcast a children’s radio program. In 1912 Korczak became the director of a Jewish orphanage in Warsaw.

When World War II broke out in 1939, Korczak first refused to accept the German occupation and heed their regulations (consequently spending time in jail). However, when the Jews of Warsaw were forced to move into a ghetto, Korczak refocused his efforts on the children in his orphanage. Despite offers from Polish friends to hide him on the “Aryan” side of the city, Korczak refused to abandon the children.

On August 5, 1942, during a 2-month wave of deportations from the ghetto, the Nazis rounded up Korczak and his 200 children. They marched in rows to the Umschlagplatz with Korczak in the lead. He never abandoned his children, even to the very end. Korczak and the children were sent to Treblinka, where they were all murdered.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9BM664VcRU

The Spielberg Jewish Film Archive – Morocco Music

Name: Morocco – Music of the Jews from North Africa
Year: 1994
Duration: 00:29:04
Language: English

Abstract: Part of the Israel Music Heritage Project. A look at the mixture of Arab melodies with Hebrew text that forms the basis of Moroccan Jewish music.

The Spielberg Jewish Film Archive –
The 500 films, selected for the virtual cinema, reflect the vast scope of documentary material collected in the Spielberg Archive. The films range from 1911 to the present and include home movies, short films and full length features.

The Exodus as Cultural Memory- Ron Hendel

02.04.2015
Ron Hendel Ph.D., Norma and Sam Dabby Professor of Hebrew Bible and Jewish Studies, University of California at Berkeley
The Exodus is a central event in biblical and Jewish memory. But according to the archaeological and historical record, it is unclear what it is a memory of. I propose that it is, in part, a transformed memory of the demise of the Egyptian Empire in Canaan, which facilitated the emergence of Israel as an independent people. The story served as an engine of a distinctive cultural identity, a function that it continues to perform today.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQIPH9_MXh0&list=UUL2Hp6oxRlvmA231NfBM_oA

itraveljerusalem

Lia van Leer (Hebrew: ליה ון ליר‎, August 8, 1924 – March 13, 2015) was a pioneer in the field of art film programming and film archiving in Israel. She was the founder of the Haifa Cinematheque, the Jerusalem Cinematheque, the Israel Film Archive and theJerusalem Film Festival.

Lia van Leer (Greenberg) was born on August 8, 1924 in the Bessarabian city of Bălți, then in Romania, now in Moldova. Her father, Simon Greenberg, was a wheat exporter and her mother, Olga, was a WIZO volunteer. She attended a public high school and spent summer holidays in the Carpathian mountains. In 1940, her parents sent her to Palestine to visit her sister Bruria, a dentist, who had immigrated in 1936 and was living in Tel Aviv. She never saw her parents again.[1] In July 1941, the Germans occupied Beltsy and murdered her father and other Jewish community leaders. Her mother and grandmother were deported to Transnistria and died in a concentration camp. Lia moved to Jerusalem in 1943 to attend the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1952, she married Wim Van Leer, a Dutch engineer, pilot, playwright and film producer, and settled in Haifa.[2] They founded the country’s first film club in 1955.

One Day / Israel

On a journey in the Middle East, brothers Robert and Adam Kolodny (from the Brooklyn based production companyhouseofnod.com) explored the diverse adventure that is the State of Israel and the region it exists in. They went with a group then later went off backpacking, staying with friends they met along the journey and at hostels. This is the document of what was observed on this journey through one of the most complex, misunderstood, important and beautiful places in the world. This film is a message of hope and equality.
Shot on location in Jerusalem, The West Bank, Haifa, The Negev, Tel Aviv, Nazareth, Tiberias, Netanya, Golan Heights, Tsfat and Hebron.

ISRAEL21cdotcom

There’s so much more to 21st century Israel than the conflict that dominates media coverage.
The reality of daily life in Israel is about commerce and research; art and culture; music and dance; community and family. Through ISRAEL21c’s original and aggregated content, we hope to convey this vibrancy to you.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTUKRfd1HWg&list=UUq9C_cYZ6usvhOEkIEeC3nw

TEL AVIV Waterfront Cities of the World Discovery Channel new HD full documentary

Sparks Next

Founded in 2009, Sparks Next has fast made a name for itself, raising the bar in the world of cinematography. Founded by filmmaker Danny Finkelman, a Manhattan Beach resident, Sparks Next has brought a previously unprecedented level of professionalism to the Jewish entertainment business, with its staff of young and talented filmmakers, an award winning screenwriter and world renowned musicians.
A boutique production house, Sparks Next scripts, produces, shoots and edits every project from start to finish and has worked with virtually every major artist in the Jewish music industry. Sparks’ list of credits is long and varied and includes the ensemble video Unity for Justice, which featured over 40 Jewish music stars in an effort to raise awareness and funds for Sholom Rubashkin, The Japan Song, filmed on site at the Chiba Detention Center, and Rainbow in the Night, a short retrospective of the Holocaust created to educate today’s youth about the horrors of World War II.

KOLture Shock Hatikva – קולצ’ר שוק התקוה

Idan Raichel Project – “Ayal Ayale” (Live)

The Idan Raichel Project is an Israeli musical collective that features singers from Ethiopia, and a cross-cultural roster of Yemenite, Arab, African and Caribbean musicians. Superstars in Israel, The Idan Raichel Project is about to release their music worldwide on the new Cumbancha label, which was founded by the longtime head of A&R at Putumayo World Music. Visit http://www.cumbancha.com for more information.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78dRWREpTz0

The Synagogue Experience: Beth Sholom Synagogue

The Synagogue Experience is a series of thirteen documentary shorts that immerse visitors in post-World War II synagogue architecture, a period of great diversity and inspiration as American Jews began to express themselves through the construction of monumental synagogue edifices. Featuring breathtaking timelapse photography and interviews with synagogue congregants and clergy, the films delve into the meaning and symbolism of the unparalleled architectural work of such esteemed architects as Frank Lloyd Wright, Percival Goodman, William Harrison and Max Abramovitz, and Minoru Yamasaki. Beyond the architecture, the films also reveal how the distinct characteristics of Jewish communities from New York to Texas to California manifested in the diverse architectural expression evident in the films. An interactive touchscreen in the gallery allows visitors select the film they would like to see projected.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl9F_yyxdog

Chabad Hebrew School Pesach 2015

22.03.2015
Chabad of the Lehigh Valley celebrates Pesach with a chocolate seder and games that were so much fun!